There's really no such thing as "your own design" unless you want to build your own metal and plastic parts.

Custom designs will always be something-style, because you need to use brand name/licensed hardware. The most you can really do without either screwing up the looks/ sounds is making modifications to pre-existing body design; which is what I intend to do.

Also, I don't like those axe guitars.

Shitty photoshop job aside, this is the concept of what I want to do. The differences are, I'd leave my finish semi natural with an orange and yellow sunburst finish.

The routing job would be mainly what would be more distinguishable about it, as the top side of the horns would be flat, and the sides of the body rounded, giving the horns a "sharp" look.

Well, would have to do it on a test piece of wood first, to see what happens. It you do it your guitar, make sure the coat of paint underneath the thermotropic paint is black. I hope the paint responds OK to lacquers.

The best way to play that five-string bar chord is to set down your index finger first, in a position that would result in you being able to pluck the strings and you wouldn't have any dull notes. THEN once you have that position down, you add the other fingers. Just get that muscle memory in your head and it instantly gets a fuckton easier.

Yeah that's the thing my index is right asshat at barres, and two string always end up muted.

Any bassists here who have tried the Aria SB 404? Wondering because it's not really expensive and I think it looks just lovely, but my father (who used to play bass) says it's not worth the money and that there's much better stuff for the same price out there.
Any response is appreciated. :)

I had a red one for a while. I couldn't really tell you if it was a good bass, though, since it was my first bass, and I haven't played any others. It worked pretty good, as far as I know. I gave it to a friend of mine for a better guitar amp, and he hasn't said it was a piece of shit, so that's gotta be good.

I'm thinking about getting back into bass, though, and I'm considering an ESP B-204 Bass. Does anyone have any experience with them? As far as I can tell, and from what I've read, it looks like a pretty good Bass.http://www.zzounds.com/item--ESPB204FM

I had a red one for a while. I couldn't really tell you if it was a good bass, though, since it was my first bass, and I haven't played any others. It worked pretty good, as far as I know. I gave it to a friend of mine for a better guitar amp, and he hasn't said it was a piece of shit, so that's gotta be good.

I'm thinking about getting back into bass, though, and I'm considering an ESP B-204 Bass. Does anyone have any experience with them? As far as I can tell, and from what I've read, it looks like a pretty good Bass.http://www.zzounds.com/item--ESPB204FM

Damn that's a nice bass.

I might sell my old guitar, though I doubt my dad would ever let me use the money for another guitar.

They never looked super fancy to me. To me, Rickenbackers are the simplest-looking guitars. They have the wavey swoosh pickguard and their awesome shape and sometimes a really funky shade of robin's-egg blue and it was instantly the classiest fucking guitar out there. On top of that they still sound better than most guitars today do.

They never looked super fancy to me. To me, Rickenbackers are the simplest-looking guitars. They have the wavey swoosh pickguard and their awesome shape and sometimes a really funky shade of robin's-egg blue and it was instantly the classiest fucking guitar out there. On top of that they still sound better than most guitars today do.

I think all basses should have this sort of look to them, it just looks right IMO.